Hospitals’ Steering of Patients to Equipment Providers Did Not Violate Antitrust Law This posting was written by Darius Sturmer, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter.An Alabama hospital and a corporation that operated several hospitals in the same area, along with their affiliated joint ventures that provided durable medical equipment (DME), did not violate the Sherman Act or Alabama antitrust law by allegedly using their control of hospital services to coerce… [read post]